It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.